Television: The 1978-79 Season: III

Taxi (Tuesday, ABC, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.).
When a sitcom has this title, it is easy to guess what the show will be
like: a crew of crabby New York cabbies, each one more eccentric than
the last, will sit around a garage and trade wisecracks. Well, Taxi
conforms to those anticipations, but only up to a point. There are
plenty of laughs but no wisecracks. The cabbies are eccentric but they
are not caricatures. There are even moments when the laughter stops. At
those times, Taxi...